WEBVTT

1
00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:03.960
Now one of your pudding. I
got a string going on here, something

2
00:00:03.960 --> 00:00:07.919
just cause my dog. Something killed
your dog, my dog. We're flying

3
00:00:07.919 --> 00:00:10.160
through the or over the tree.
I don't know how it did it,

4
00:00:12.320 --> 00:00:15.960
Okay, Damn, I'm really confused. All I saw was my dog coming

5
00:00:15.960 --> 00:00:18.239
over the fence and he was dead. And once you hit the ground like,

6
00:00:18.399 --> 00:00:20.879
I didn't see any cars. All
I saw was my dog coming over

7
00:00:20.920 --> 00:00:41.320
the fence. Sat what are you
putting? We got some wonder or something

8
00:00:42.640 --> 00:00:52.240
crawling around out here? Did you
see what it was or was it was?

9
00:00:52.320 --> 00:00:55.079
Standing enough? I'm out here looking
through the window now and I don't

10
00:00:55.119 --> 00:00:59.359
see anything. I don't want to
go outside. Jesus Quice, you better

11
00:01:00.840 --> 00:01:06.959
hello, get somebody out here.
What quin I'm out there's got of aventure

12
00:01:07.079 --> 00:01:10.719
about tech forty nine? I don't
know. Easy announce the Yeah, I'm

13
00:01:10.719 --> 00:01:14.560
walking right. Oh. If you
tuned into the most recent episode of the

14
00:01:14.640 --> 00:01:18.959
show, you heard Brian and Wayne
engaging in debate about the aquatic abilities of

15
00:01:19.040 --> 00:01:23.239
sasquatch. Undoubtedly a thought provoking question, Brian took it upon himself to embark

16
00:01:23.319 --> 00:01:27.239
on a quest for answers, unearthing
articles that delve into this very topic.

17
00:01:27.920 --> 00:01:34.799
Within These captivating reads lie accounts of
these elusive creatures swimming during encounters with unsuspecting

18
00:01:34.879 --> 00:01:38.239
witnesses, and now at Brian's behest, I'm here to present these tales to

19
00:01:38.319 --> 00:01:42.200
you. Although I'm not sure these
anecdotes answer all of our questions, they're

20
00:01:42.239 --> 00:01:48.079
certainly interesting if nothing else. So
find yourself a comfortable spot, unwined,

21
00:01:48.159 --> 00:01:53.200
and enjoy as I share these amazing
accounts. Max Westernhoffer was a German pathologist

22
00:01:53.280 --> 00:01:57.959
who in the early nineteen forties made
a comment that was as controversial as it

23
00:01:57.079 --> 00:02:01.920
was thought provoking. Sstailation of an
aquatic mode of life during an early stage

24
00:02:01.959 --> 00:02:07.680
of human evolutions is a tenable hypothesis
for which further inquiry may produce additional supporting

25
00:02:07.719 --> 00:02:14.400
evidence. Almost two decades later,
a marine biologist named Alistair Hardy added that

26
00:02:14.599 --> 00:02:20.439
very ancient primitive ape stock may have
been forced by competing predators and circumstances to

27
00:02:20.560 --> 00:02:23.719
feed on the seashores and to hunt
for food shell fish, sea urchins,

28
00:02:23.759 --> 00:02:28.919
et cetera in the shallows of the
coast. I suppose that they were forced

29
00:02:28.960 --> 00:02:31.280
into the water, just as we
have seen happen in so many other groups

30
00:02:31.319 --> 00:02:37.719
of terrestrial animals. There's a large
body of data available which shows that unlike

31
00:02:37.800 --> 00:02:40.800
many apes and monkeys, Bigfoot is
quite an adept swimmer and a creature for

32
00:02:40.840 --> 00:02:46.479
whom water is far from being an
alien environment. The North American wood Ape

33
00:02:46.520 --> 00:02:51.639
Conservancies say swimming must be examined alongside
the terrestrial gate of the wood ape,

34
00:02:51.719 --> 00:02:54.360
since it appears to be an important
means of locomotion throughout the range of this

35
00:02:54.439 --> 00:03:00.960
species in North America, especially on
the West coast. Lisa Shiel, who

36
00:03:00.960 --> 00:03:05.199
has had personal interactions with Bigfoot,
has uncovered an example of Bigfoot in the

37
00:03:05.280 --> 00:03:09.159
water from the nineteenth century. She
outlines the story. In the eighteen thirties,

38
00:03:09.280 --> 00:03:13.960
reports emerged from the area around Fish
Lake, Indiana, of a four

39
00:03:14.039 --> 00:03:19.000
foot tall wild child loitering in the
vicinity and swimming in the lake. Siel

40
00:03:19.080 --> 00:03:23.240
continues in another incident that took place
in September nineteen sixty seven, a fisherman

41
00:03:23.360 --> 00:03:28.479
casting his net on the delta of
the Nuksack River in Washington State felt something

42
00:03:28.560 --> 00:03:32.120
tug on his net. A moment
later, something began dragging his net upstream.

43
00:03:32.479 --> 00:03:36.840
When he shined his flashlight at the
thief, he saw a hairy hominid

44
00:03:36.919 --> 00:03:39.719
in the river hauling in the net. A third case comes from the people

45
00:03:39.759 --> 00:03:46.639
who run the website today in Bigfoot
History, they state William Drexler's campsite overlooked

46
00:03:46.680 --> 00:03:50.919
Phantom Ship Island. He had just
finished his sausage and egg breakfast and was

47
00:03:50.919 --> 00:03:54.599
smoking his morning pipe just looking out
over Crater Lake, Wyoming. That's when

48
00:03:54.639 --> 00:03:59.879
he noticed something moving on Phantom Ship
Island. For those who may be won

49
00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:03.000
wondering, Phantom Ship Island is a
small, craggy island on Crater Lake that

50
00:04:03.120 --> 00:04:09.039
takes its name from its ghost ship
like appearance, which is particularly noticeable when

51
00:04:09.039 --> 00:04:14.439
the mist hover is low and thick. The story continues, what Drexlas saw

52
00:04:14.639 --> 00:04:18.000
was a brownish gray bigfoot, obviously
soaking wet, stretching out on some rocks

53
00:04:18.079 --> 00:04:23.959
near the water's edge. One of
the most fascinating examples originated near Ketchekeen,

54
00:04:24.040 --> 00:04:27.879
Alaska, at some point around the
turn of the nineteen sixties. It was

55
00:04:27.920 --> 00:04:32.439
a story provided to long time bigfoot
authority and investigator John Green. The story

56
00:04:32.519 --> 00:04:35.360
had a bit of a friend of
a friend aspect to it, but it

57
00:04:35.480 --> 00:04:40.959
is no less fascinating. It revolved
around a young boy named Errol who,

58
00:04:41.120 --> 00:04:46.160
on one particular night was out fishing
with his father when his flashlight illuminated something

59
00:04:46.319 --> 00:04:50.160
terrifying standing in the water, A
large humanoid creature, but one which was

60
00:04:50.240 --> 00:04:56.480
clearly not human, staring intently at
him. Not surprisingly, the boy screamed

61
00:04:56.480 --> 00:04:59.800
at the top of his lungs and
fled for his life. A posse of

62
00:04:59.839 --> 00:05:02.480
men then came running, just in
time to illuminate the dark waters with their

63
00:05:02.519 --> 00:05:06.959
flashlights and who saw to their astonishment
the huge beast dive into the water and

64
00:05:08.040 --> 00:05:12.759
start swimming like a frog, before
vanishing from view as it plunged ever deeper

65
00:05:12.800 --> 00:05:16.480
into the depths. In moments it
was gone, demonstrating its skills as a

66
00:05:16.600 --> 00:05:23.120
powerful, fast swimmer. Rupert Matthews, the author of Bigfoot Reports. In

67
00:05:23.240 --> 00:05:27.399
July nineteen sixty five, a sasquatch
was seen swimming some distance away from the

68
00:05:27.439 --> 00:05:31.519
shore of Princess Royal Island, British
Columbia. The fisherman who saw it realized

69
00:05:31.560 --> 00:05:35.199
with no little apprehension that it was
actually swimming for his boat, so he

70
00:05:35.279 --> 00:05:40.480
started up his outboard motor and sped
off. At this point, four more

71
00:05:40.560 --> 00:05:44.839
sasquatch appeared on a nearby beach and
watched him. There have been sightings of

72
00:05:44.879 --> 00:05:48.560
swimming Bigfoot in Texas too. Rob
Riggs, who deeply studied reports of the

73
00:05:48.639 --> 00:05:53.680
creatures in and around the Big Thicket
area of the Lone Star state, told

74
00:05:53.720 --> 00:05:58.639
of one particularly notable case of a
watery sasquatch. John's family home is on

75
00:05:58.720 --> 00:06:01.600
the edge of the Trinity River swamps
near Dayton. One night, he heard

76
00:06:01.639 --> 00:06:05.639
a disturbance on the porch where he
kept a pen of rabbits. He investigated

77
00:06:05.800 --> 00:06:10.319
just in time to see a large
dark form make off with rabbit in hand.

78
00:06:11.120 --> 00:06:15.319
John impulsively followed in hot pursuit,
staying close enough to hear the rabbit

79
00:06:15.399 --> 00:06:19.399
squeal continuously. John was able to
close in on the creature and to a

80
00:06:19.480 --> 00:06:25.120
point where he witnessed something amazing occur, As Rigs revealed, standing on the

81
00:06:25.199 --> 00:06:28.319
high bank in the moonlight, he
watched dumb struck as what looked like a

82
00:06:28.439 --> 00:06:31.879
huge apelike animal swam to the other
side of the river, easily negotiating the

83
00:06:31.959 --> 00:06:36.480
strong current and never letting go of
the rabbit. In March two thousand and

84
00:06:36.519 --> 00:06:43.120
seven, the Goldie family told of
swimming Bigfoot around Trinidad, California. Rather

85
00:06:43.240 --> 00:06:47.480
bizarrely, the creatures were reportedly seen
swimming alongside sea lions as they negotiated the

86
00:06:47.560 --> 00:06:53.680
waters from Trinidad Head Rock to Flat
Iron Rock. The biding cold waters apparently

87
00:06:53.759 --> 00:06:58.439
affected the Bigfoot not a bit.
A Bigfoot so elusive because they live in

88
00:06:58.519 --> 00:07:01.720
deep water. Come with me now
as we take a look at the secrets

89
00:07:01.720 --> 00:07:05.920
of Bigfoot's very own world of the
watery depths. Will begin with a largely

90
00:07:06.040 --> 00:07:11.279
unknown issue of the Bigfoot creatures being
skilled swimmers, and as the evidence will

91
00:07:11.319 --> 00:07:14.399
soon show, they are creatures that
spend a lot of time deep in the

92
00:07:14.480 --> 00:07:17.759
water. Between the nights of December
twenty sixth and twenty ninth, nineteen eighty,

93
00:07:17.920 --> 00:07:23.800
multiple extraordinary events of the UFO kind
occurred within Rendelsham Forest, Suffolk,

94
00:07:23.879 --> 00:07:29.240
England. There were events that involved
military personnel from the nearby Royal Air Force

95
00:07:29.319 --> 00:07:33.000
stations of bent Waters and Woodbridge.
Since that now long gone period, countless

96
00:07:33.079 --> 00:07:38.399
US Air Force personnel who were stationed
in the area at the time have spoken

97
00:07:38.480 --> 00:07:43.120
out regarding their knowledge of a small, triangular shaped object that was seen maneuvering

98
00:07:43.160 --> 00:07:48.360
in the forest. Others described seeing
in the dark woods almost ghostly extraterrestrial type

99
00:07:48.399 --> 00:07:54.560
beings of short size and with eerie
feline like eyes. Strange and unknown lights

100
00:07:54.600 --> 00:07:58.680
were seen dancing around the night skies, circling both the forest and the twin

101
00:07:58.800 --> 00:08:03.519
military facilities. There were stories that
the amazing movements of the Euphos were caught

102
00:08:03.560 --> 00:08:07.879
on radar, and there was even
hush talk of those military personnel involved in

103
00:08:07.920 --> 00:08:11.680
the incident being silenced by ominous men
in black style characters. As for the

104
00:08:11.720 --> 00:08:16.240
official story, many attempts have been
made to suggest that the beam from a

105
00:08:16.319 --> 00:08:20.759
local lighthouse situated at near by Orford
Nests was the cause of all the fuss

106
00:08:20.800 --> 00:08:24.879
of the flying source of variety.
And here's where we come to something decidedly

107
00:08:24.959 --> 00:08:28.759
strange and intriguing. It has nothing
to do with the lighthouse per se,

108
00:08:28.160 --> 00:08:33.519
but everything to do with the twelfth
century town of Orford itself. Wondering what

109
00:08:33.639 --> 00:08:37.039
I mean by that? First,
here is a bit of important background data

110
00:08:37.120 --> 00:08:43.080
on Orford Castle, near which an
amphibian man was seen and captured. Orford

111
00:08:43.200 --> 00:08:46.600
Castle was a royal castle built by
King Henry the Second of England between eleven

112
00:08:46.720 --> 00:08:52.720
sixty five and eleven seventy three because
he wanted to re establish royal influence across

113
00:08:52.759 --> 00:08:56.519
the region. Before that time,
the area had been under control by the

114
00:08:56.559 --> 00:09:01.279
big Odd family, who resided in
nearby Framlingham Castle. Hugh big God had

115
00:09:01.320 --> 00:09:03.759
been one of a group of dissenting
barons during the anarchy and the reign of

116
00:09:03.840 --> 00:09:09.320
King Stephen. Henry had initially confiscated
Framlingham Castle from Hugh, but had returned

117
00:09:09.360 --> 00:09:13.960
it in eleven sixty five. In
eleven seventy four, Henry crushed the Big

118
00:09:15.000 --> 00:09:20.480
Gods when they revolted again and ordered
the permanent confiscation of Framlingham Castle. During

119
00:09:20.559 --> 00:09:24.080
a revolt, Orford Castle was heavily
garrisoned with twenty knights. Henry died in

120
00:09:24.159 --> 00:09:28.519
eleven eighty nine, and although the
political importance of Orford Castle diminished, the

121
00:09:28.639 --> 00:09:33.759
port of Orford grew in importance.
By the start of the thirteenth century,

122
00:09:33.039 --> 00:09:37.879
royal authority over Suffolk firmly established.
It handled even more trade than the more

123
00:09:37.960 --> 00:09:43.759
famous port of nearby Ipswich. In
twelve sixteen, Orford Castle was taken by

124
00:09:43.799 --> 00:09:46.559
the invading Prince Louis of France,
later to become King Louis the Eighth.

125
00:09:48.279 --> 00:09:52.279
John fitz Robert became the governor of
the royal castle under the young King Henry

126
00:09:52.600 --> 00:09:56.440
the Third of England, followed by
Hubert de Burgh. Under King Edward,

127
00:09:56.480 --> 00:10:00.600
the first governorship of Orford Castle was
given to the Devaloin's family, and had

128
00:10:00.639 --> 00:10:03.240
passed by marriage to Robert de Ufford, the first Earl of Suffolk, who

129
00:10:03.320 --> 00:10:07.840
was granted it in perpetuity by Edward
the Third in thirteen thirty six. No

130
00:10:07.960 --> 00:10:11.960
longer a royal castle, Orford was
passed on through the Willoughby, Stanhope and

131
00:10:13.000 --> 00:10:16.519
de Vere families. It is truly
ironic that many of those who are skeptical

132
00:10:16.559 --> 00:10:22.240
of the Rendlesham Forest UFO case of
December nineteen eighty are so very often keen

133
00:10:22.360 --> 00:10:26.559
to suggest that the airmen who were
involved merely mistook the elimination from the nearby

134
00:10:26.759 --> 00:10:33.000
Orford Lighthouse for something more exotic.
Why Well, Orford itself is a veritable

135
00:10:33.039 --> 00:10:35.200
hot bed of weirdness, and that
has not just been the case for the

136
00:10:35.320 --> 00:10:39.639
last few years, or even since
the events at Rendelshem occurred. Rather,

137
00:10:39.960 --> 00:10:43.759
Orford has been what the late John
Keel would have termed a window area for

138
00:10:43.879 --> 00:10:48.360
no less than centuries. Consider as
just one example of what actually amounts to

139
00:10:48.440 --> 00:10:52.639
far more than a few the following
account of the single named Ralph, a

140
00:10:52.799 --> 00:10:58.120
monk and an abbot of cargeshol Essex, England, recorded way back in the

141
00:10:58.200 --> 00:11:01.960
year twelve hundred in chronic and anglic
The story describes the remarkable capture in the

142
00:11:03.039 --> 00:11:05.960
area of nothing less than a definitive
wild man of the woods style creature.

143
00:11:07.639 --> 00:11:11.080
In the time of King Henry the
Second, when Bartholemy de Glanville was in

144
00:11:11.200 --> 00:11:15.200
charge of the castle at Orford,
it happened that some fishermen fishing in the

145
00:11:15.279 --> 00:11:18.919
sea there caught in their nets a
wild man. He was naked and was

146
00:11:20.000 --> 00:11:22.039
like a man in all his members, covered with hair and with a long,

147
00:11:22.159 --> 00:11:26.120
shaggy beard. He eagerly ate whatever
was brought to him, but if

148
00:11:26.159 --> 00:11:30.240
it was raw, he pressed it
between his hands until all the juice was

149
00:11:30.279 --> 00:11:35.240
expelled. Ralph continued with his monster
themed account. He would not talk,

150
00:11:35.480 --> 00:11:39.360
even when tortured and hung up by
his feet brought into church, he showed

151
00:11:39.399 --> 00:11:43.799
no sign of reverence or belief.
He sought his bed at sunset and always

152
00:11:43.879 --> 00:11:48.039
remained there until sunrise. He was
allowed to go into the sea, strongly

153
00:11:48.120 --> 00:11:50.840
guarded with three lines of nets,
but he dived under the nets and came

154
00:11:50.919 --> 00:11:54.720
up again and again. Eventually he
came back of his own free will.

155
00:11:56.600 --> 00:12:01.919
But later on he escaped and was
never seen again, or maybe the beast

156
00:12:01.039 --> 00:12:05.600
man, or far more likely,
given the large passage of time, one

157
00:12:05.639 --> 00:12:09.759
of its offspring was seen again,
albeit hundreds of years further down the line.

158
00:12:09.440 --> 00:12:13.159
At some point during the summer of
nineteen sixty eight, one Morris Allen,

159
00:12:13.200 --> 00:12:16.240
who grew up in the vicinity of
Orford, was walking along the coast

160
00:12:16.360 --> 00:12:20.639
near, of all places, the
town of Orford itself, when in the

161
00:12:20.720 --> 00:12:24.799
distance he saw someone squatting on the
sand and leaning over something. As he

162
00:12:24.879 --> 00:12:28.039
got closer, Morris said he could
see that the man was dressed in what

163
00:12:28.200 --> 00:12:31.960
looked like an animal's skin and was
savagely tearing into the flesh of a dead

164
00:12:31.039 --> 00:12:35.519
rabbit. The man was dirt encrusted
with long tangled hair, and had wild,

165
00:12:35.720 --> 00:12:39.679
staring eyes. Morris could only watch
with a mixture of fascination and horror.

166
00:12:41.399 --> 00:12:43.840
Suddenly, the man held his head
aloft and quickly looked, or perhaps

167
00:12:45.039 --> 00:12:48.720
glared would be a far better description
in Morris direction, as if he had

168
00:12:48.759 --> 00:12:52.240
picked up his scent. The wild
man quickly scooped up the rabbit, bounded

169
00:12:52.279 --> 00:12:56.120
off into the grass, and was
forever lost from sight. For a highly

170
00:12:56.200 --> 00:13:01.919
traumatized Morris Allen, it was an
event destined never to be forgotten. Perhaps

171
00:13:01.039 --> 00:13:05.480
the wild Man of Orford and its
surrounding areas continues to live on, taunting

172
00:13:05.559 --> 00:13:09.879
in tantalizing people with the occasional sighting
of its bestial form, and it can

173
00:13:09.960 --> 00:13:13.679
now be said with a high degree
of accuracy in the weird stakes there is

174
00:13:13.799 --> 00:13:20.000
far more to Orferd than just its
infamous lighthouse. Max Westernhoffer was a German

175
00:13:20.080 --> 00:13:24.799
pathologist who in the early nineteen forties
made a comment that was as controversial as

176
00:13:24.840 --> 00:13:28.960
it was thought provoking. The postellation
of an aquatic mode of life during an

177
00:13:30.000 --> 00:13:35.320
early stage of human evolutions is a
tenable hypothesis for which further inquiry may produce

178
00:13:35.360 --> 00:13:41.240
an additional supporting evidence. Almost two
decades later, a marine biologist named Alister

179
00:13:41.360 --> 00:13:46.639
Hardy added that very ancient primitive ape
stock may have been forced by competing predators

180
00:13:46.679 --> 00:13:50.279
and circumstances to feed on the sea
shores and to hunt for food shell fish.

181
00:13:50.480 --> 00:13:54.679
Sea urchins et ce in the shallows
of the coast. I suppose that

182
00:13:54.759 --> 00:13:58.720
they were forced into the water,
just as we have seen happen in so

183
00:13:58.879 --> 00:14:03.279
many other groups of terre vestrial animals. While it is obvious that lakes,

184
00:14:03.399 --> 00:14:07.320
oceans, and rivers are not the
natural habitats of Bigfoot. There's a large

185
00:14:07.360 --> 00:14:11.519
body of data available which shows that, unlike many apes and monkeys, Bigfoot

186
00:14:11.600 --> 00:14:15.279
is quite an adept swimmer and a
creature for whom water is far from being

187
00:14:15.279 --> 00:14:20.320
an alien environment. The North American
wood Ape Conservancies say swimming must be examined

188
00:14:20.320 --> 00:14:24.759
alongside the terrestrial gate of the wood
ape, since it appears to be an

189
00:14:24.799 --> 00:14:28.679
important means of locomotion throughout the range
of this species in North America, especially

190
00:14:28.759 --> 00:14:33.159
on the West coast. Circumstantial evidence, such as reports of the presence of

191
00:14:33.200 --> 00:14:37.559
wood apes on small islands off the
coast of British Columbia, has suggested they

192
00:14:37.639 --> 00:14:43.320
swim. Observations of wood apes actually
swimming have confirmed this. Lisa Shiel,

193
00:14:43.399 --> 00:14:48.840
who has had personal interactions with Bigfoot, has uncovered an example of Bigfoot in

194
00:14:48.879 --> 00:14:54.399
the water from the nineteenth century.
She outlines the story. In the eighteen

195
00:14:54.519 --> 00:14:58.240
thirties, reports emerged from the area
around Fish Lake, Indiana, of a

196
00:14:58.320 --> 00:15:01.600
four foot tall wild chair loitering in
the vicinity and swimming in the lake.

197
00:15:03.320 --> 00:15:07.440
Schiel continues in another incident that took
place in September nineteen sixty seven, a

198
00:15:07.480 --> 00:15:11.480
fisherman casting his net on the delta
of the Nuksack River in Washington State,

199
00:15:11.600 --> 00:15:16.799
felt something tug on his net.
A moment later, something began dragging his

200
00:15:16.960 --> 00:15:20.879
net upstream. When he shined his
flashlight at the thief, he saw a

201
00:15:20.960 --> 00:15:24.120
hairy harminet in the river hauling in
the net. A third case comes from

202
00:15:24.159 --> 00:15:30.399
the people who run the website today
in Bigfoot History, they state William Drexler's

203
00:15:30.440 --> 00:15:35.320
campsite overlooked phantom Ship Island. He
had just finished his sausage and egg breakfast

204
00:15:35.440 --> 00:15:39.919
and was smoking his morning pipe just
looking out over Crater Lake. That is

205
00:15:39.000 --> 00:15:43.159
when he noticed something moving on phantom
Ship Island. For those who may be

206
00:15:43.279 --> 00:15:48.759
wondering, Phantomship Island is a small, craggy island on Crater Lake that takes

207
00:15:48.799 --> 00:15:52.519
its name from its ghost ship like
appearance, which is particularly noticeable when the

208
00:15:52.600 --> 00:15:58.120
mist hovers low and thick. The
story continues, Drexler got out his binoculars.

209
00:15:58.519 --> 00:16:00.840
It took him a minute or two
before he was able to get a

210
00:16:00.879 --> 00:16:06.480
good bead on the moving figure.
What Drexler saw was a brownish gray bigfoot,

211
00:16:06.600 --> 00:16:11.000
obviously soaking wet stretching out on some
rocks near the water's edge. The

212
00:16:11.080 --> 00:16:15.600
creature was luxuriated. Drexler watched the
creature for a while lounge in the sun.

213
00:16:15.360 --> 00:16:18.840
Then after a bit, the bigfoot
climbed to the other side of the

214
00:16:18.919 --> 00:16:23.200
island and Drexler lost sight of him. One of the most fascinating examples originated

215
00:16:23.279 --> 00:16:27.120
near Ketchikan, Alaska, at some
point around the turn of the nineteen sixties.

216
00:16:27.480 --> 00:16:32.879
It was a story provided to long
time bigfoot authority and investigator John Green.

217
00:16:33.679 --> 00:16:36.480
The story had a bit of a
friend of a friend aspect to it,

218
00:16:36.879 --> 00:16:40.679
but that makes it no less fascinating. It revolved around a young boy

219
00:16:40.840 --> 00:16:44.399
named Errol, who, on one
particular night, was out fishing with his

220
00:16:44.519 --> 00:16:49.480
father when his flashlight illuminated something terrifying
standing in the water, a large humanoid

221
00:16:49.559 --> 00:16:53.519
creature, but one which was clearly
not human, staring intently at him.

222
00:16:55.200 --> 00:16:57.840
Not surprisingly, the boy screamed at
the top of his lungs and fled for

223
00:16:57.960 --> 00:17:03.519
his life. A posse of men
came running just in time to illuminate the

224
00:17:03.639 --> 00:17:07.119
dark waters with their flashlights, and
who saw, to their astonishment, the

225
00:17:07.240 --> 00:17:11.839
huge beast dive into the water and
start swimming like a frog before vanishing from

226
00:17:11.920 --> 00:17:15.119
view as it plunged ever deeper into
the depths. In moments it was gone,

227
00:17:15.759 --> 00:17:21.319
demonstrating its skills as a powerful,
fast swimmer. Rupert Matthews, the

228
00:17:21.400 --> 00:17:26.079
author of Bigfoot Reports. In July
nineteen sixty five, a sasquatch was seen

229
00:17:26.200 --> 00:17:30.680
swimming some distance away from the shore
of Princess Royal Island, British Columbia.

230
00:17:30.039 --> 00:17:34.039
The fisherman who saw it realized with
no little apprehension that it was actually swimming

231
00:17:34.119 --> 00:17:37.519
for his boat, so he started
up his outboard motor and sped off.

232
00:17:38.160 --> 00:17:42.000
At this point, four more sasquatch
appeared on a nearby beach and watched him.

233
00:17:42.920 --> 00:17:47.960
There have been sightings of swimming Bigfoot
in Texas too. Rob Riggs,

234
00:17:48.000 --> 00:17:52.119
who has deeply studied reports of the
creature's end and around the Big Thicket area

235
00:17:52.240 --> 00:17:56.559
of the Lone Star State, tells
of one particularly notable case of a watery

236
00:17:56.680 --> 00:18:02.640
sasquatch. John's family home on the
edge of the Trinity River swamps near Dayton.

237
00:18:03.400 --> 00:18:06.039
One night, he heard a disturbance
on the porch where he kept a

238
00:18:06.079 --> 00:18:10.359
pen of rabbits. He investigated just
in time to see a large dark form

239
00:18:10.440 --> 00:18:15.319
make off with rabbit in hand,
John impulsively followed in hot pursuit, staying

240
00:18:15.400 --> 00:18:18.240
close enough to hear the rabbit squeal
continuously. John was able to close in

241
00:18:18.319 --> 00:18:22.920
on the creature and to a point
where he witnessed something amazing occur. As

242
00:18:22.039 --> 00:18:26.359
Riggs reveals, standing on the high
bank in the moonlight, he watched dumbstruck

243
00:18:26.440 --> 00:18:30.720
as what looked like a huge ape
like animal swam to the other side of

244
00:18:30.799 --> 00:18:34.200
the river, easily negotiating the strong
current and never letting go of the rabbit.

245
00:18:36.119 --> 00:18:40.240
In March two thousand and seven,
the gold Ee family told of swimming

246
00:18:40.319 --> 00:18:45.880
Bigfoot around Trinidad, California. Rather
bizarrely, the creatures were reportedly seen swimming

247
00:18:45.960 --> 00:18:51.240
alongside sea lions as they negotiated the
waters from Trinidad Head Rock to Flat Iron

248
00:18:51.359 --> 00:18:56.920
Rock. The biding cold waters apparently
affected the Bigfoot not a bit Constructed in

249
00:18:56.960 --> 00:19:02.519
the early part of the nineteenth century, England's historic Shropshire Union Canal, or

250
00:19:02.559 --> 00:19:06.359
the Shroppye, as it has come
to be affectionately and popularly known by those

251
00:19:06.440 --> 00:19:11.079
that regularly travel its extensive and winding
waters, is some sixty seven miles in

252
00:19:11.200 --> 00:19:15.240
length and extends from Ellesmere Port near
the city of Liverpool, right down to

253
00:19:15.400 --> 00:19:19.160
Orderly Junction at Wolverhampton in the Midlands. The southern end of the old canal

254
00:19:19.319 --> 00:19:23.440
that was originally known as the Birmingham
and Liverpool Junction Canal, was the very

255
00:19:23.559 --> 00:19:27.400
last of the great British narrow boat
canals to be built and is a true

256
00:19:27.480 --> 00:19:33.960
testament to the masterful engineering of Thomas
Telford. Deep cuttings and massive embankments are

257
00:19:33.000 --> 00:19:37.480
the veritable hallmarks of the canal,
and they paint a picture that is as

258
00:19:37.559 --> 00:19:41.839
eerie as it is picturesque. The
UK Shropshire Union Canal is quite possibly Britain's

259
00:19:41.880 --> 00:19:47.680
most haunted waterway, as the local
folk that intimately know and appreciate the history

260
00:19:47.759 --> 00:19:51.799
and lore of the canal are only
too well aware. At Chester's Old Northgate,

261
00:19:51.880 --> 00:19:53.960
for example, and where the canal
was dug into part of the town's

262
00:19:55.000 --> 00:19:59.960
old moat, a ghostly Roman centurion
can be seen when circumstances are said to

263
00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:03.200
to be right, that is still
guarding the ancient entrance to the city.

264
00:20:03.559 --> 00:20:11.240
Stay tuned for more sasquatch Otsey will
be right back after these messages. Then

265
00:20:11.319 --> 00:20:17.079
there is the shrieking specter of Belton
Cuddy, which is a veritable wailing banshee

266
00:20:17.160 --> 00:20:21.359
style monstrosity that strikes cold, stark
fear into the hearts of those who have

267
00:20:21.480 --> 00:20:26.839
the misfortune and bad luck to cross
its terrible path. At the site of

268
00:20:26.920 --> 00:20:32.319
the former lock keeper's cottage at Burgerdon
on the nearby Montgomery Canal come intriguing reports

269
00:20:32.359 --> 00:20:37.039
of the ghostly ethereal figure of an
early Welsh princess named Ira, and bringing

270
00:20:37.160 --> 00:20:41.640
matters relatively more up to date,
there is the spectral American Air Force pilot

271
00:20:41.720 --> 00:20:45.359
whose aircraft crashed near the canal at
little On at church Eton, Staffordshire during

272
00:20:45.400 --> 00:20:51.079
the Second World War. There is
also the helpful resident ghost of Teery middle

273
00:20:51.160 --> 00:20:55.440
Lock at Market Drayton, which has
allegedly been seen opening and closing the lock

274
00:20:55.519 --> 00:21:00.559
gates for those novice holidaying boaters that
from time to time negotiates the waters of

275
00:21:00.599 --> 00:21:04.000
the Long Canal. But by far
the most famous or perhaps infamous would be

276
00:21:04.039 --> 00:21:08.720
a much more accurate word to use
ghostly resident of the Shropshire Union Canal is

277
00:21:08.759 --> 00:21:12.960
a truly diabolical and devilish entity that
has become known as the man Monkey.

278
00:21:14.480 --> 00:21:18.440
That's right, the very same hairy
creature that back in January nineteen eighty six

279
00:21:18.799 --> 00:21:22.640
got me into this controversy in the
first place. It was within the packed

280
00:21:22.680 --> 00:21:26.319
pages of Charlotte Sofia Burne's book of
eighteen eighty three Shropshire Folklore, that the

281
00:21:26.440 --> 00:21:30.359
unholy antics of what some have since
perceived to be the closest thing that Britain

282
00:21:30.440 --> 00:21:34.640
may have to the North American Bigfoot
and the yetti of the Himalayas were first

283
00:21:34.759 --> 00:21:41.039
unleashed upon an unsuspecting general public.
According to Burne, a very weird story

284
00:21:41.079 --> 00:21:45.640
of an encounter with an animal ghost
arose of late years within my knowledge.

285
00:21:45.319 --> 00:21:49.759
On the twenty first of January eighteen
seventy nine, a laboring man was employed

286
00:21:49.759 --> 00:21:55.079
to take a card of luggage from
Ranton in Staffordshire to Woodcock beyond Newport in

287
00:21:55.160 --> 00:21:57.480
Shropshire, for the ease of a
party of visitors who were going from one

288
00:21:57.559 --> 00:22:02.799
house to another. It was late
in coming back. His horse was tired

289
00:22:03.039 --> 00:22:06.160
and could only crawl along at a
foot's pace, so that it was ten

290
00:22:06.200 --> 00:22:08.599
o'clock at night when he arrived at
the place where the high road crosses the

291
00:22:08.680 --> 00:22:14.960
Birmingham and Liverpool Canal. It was
then Burne faithfully recorded that the man received

292
00:22:15.039 --> 00:22:18.880
what was undoubtedly the most terrifying shock
of his entire life before or since,

293
00:22:19.000 --> 00:22:23.240
it seems pretty safe to assume,
just before he reached the canal bridge,

294
00:22:23.519 --> 00:22:27.640
a strange black creature with great white
eyes sprang out of the plantation by the

295
00:22:27.720 --> 00:22:32.720
roadside and alighted on his horse's back. He tried to push it off with

296
00:22:32.799 --> 00:22:34.640
his whip, but to his horror, the whip went through the thing,

297
00:22:34.960 --> 00:22:38.839
and he dropped it on the ground
in fright. Needless to say, Burne

298
00:22:38.880 --> 00:22:44.720
added, the poor tired horse broke
into a canter and rushed onwards at full

299
00:22:44.799 --> 00:22:48.440
speed, with a ghost still clinging
to its back. How the creature at

300
00:22:48.519 --> 00:22:52.880
length vanished, the man hardly knew. But the story was far from over,

301
00:22:52.079 --> 00:22:56.480
burn learned. He told his tale
and the village of wood Seeds a

302
00:22:56.559 --> 00:23:00.319
mile further on, and so effectively
frightened the hearers that one man actually stayed

303
00:23:00.400 --> 00:23:04.839
with friends there all night rather than
cross the terrible bridge which lay between him

304
00:23:04.880 --> 00:23:10.200
and his home. Burne's wild story
continued that by the time he reached the

305
00:23:10.319 --> 00:23:14.599
village of wood Saves, the unnamed
man was in a state of excessive terror,

306
00:23:15.079 --> 00:23:18.880
and promptly retired to his bed for
several days, so much was he

307
00:23:18.960 --> 00:23:23.079
prostrated by his fright. Burne also
recorded that on the following day, another

308
00:23:23.160 --> 00:23:27.319
individual traveled back to the Sinister Bridge, and sure enough there was the man's

309
00:23:27.319 --> 00:23:30.640
whip still lying at the very place
where it had fallen to the ground.

310
00:23:30.759 --> 00:23:36.079
After the night marrish and bizarre encounter, almost inevitably, dark tales of the

311
00:23:36.160 --> 00:23:41.640
crazed beast and its infernal night time
activities began to spread like absolute wildfire throughout

312
00:23:41.640 --> 00:23:45.839
the little villages and hamlets of the
area, as Burne quickly learned and recorded

313
00:23:45.880 --> 00:23:48.759
thus in her book, the adventure, as was natural, was much talked

314
00:23:48.799 --> 00:23:52.519
of in the neighbourhood, and of
course with all sorts of variations. Most

315
00:23:52.599 --> 00:23:57.720
regrettably, Burne failed to elaborate on
the particular nature of these variations and gossip.

316
00:23:59.440 --> 00:24:02.920
But it seemed that the local constabulary
had heard all about the nature and

317
00:24:03.039 --> 00:24:07.519
exploits of the Harry demon and knew
exactly what was afoot. As Burne carefully

318
00:24:07.640 --> 00:24:11.279
chronicled, some days later, the
man's master was surprised by a visit from

319
00:24:11.319 --> 00:24:15.200
a policeman who came to request him
to give information of his having been stopped

320
00:24:15.240 --> 00:24:18.400
and robbed on the Big Bridge on
the night of the twenty first January.

321
00:24:19.440 --> 00:24:23.839
The Master, who apparently was very
much amused by this development in the escalating

322
00:24:23.960 --> 00:24:30.119
and seemingly mutating story, carefully explained
to the visiting policeman that this was completely

323
00:24:30.240 --> 00:24:33.680
untrue and that in reality, it
was his employee who had reported a strange

324
00:24:33.759 --> 00:24:38.359
encounter at the Big Bridge, but
that there was most definitely no robbery involved

325
00:24:38.400 --> 00:24:42.279
at all. Interestingly, when the
real details of what had occurred were related

326
00:24:42.319 --> 00:24:47.960
to the policeman, he was seemingly
completely nonplussed, came to the realization that

327
00:24:48.119 --> 00:24:52.119
no actual crime had been committed at
all, and merely replied in a distinctly

328
00:24:52.240 --> 00:24:55.720
matter of fact fashion, oh,
was that all, sir? Oh?

329
00:24:55.799 --> 00:24:59.039
I know what that was? That
was the man monkey, sir, as

330
00:24:59.119 --> 00:25:02.519
does come again at the bridge ever
since the man was drowned in the cut.

331
00:25:03.240 --> 00:25:07.960
Charlotte Byrne also revealed that she personally
had the opportunity to speak with the

332
00:25:07.000 --> 00:25:11.160
man's employer, but also to our
cost today, she did not expand upon

333
00:25:11.200 --> 00:25:17.319
the specific nature of the conversation within
the pages of Shropshire Folklore. Nevertheless,

334
00:25:17.640 --> 00:25:22.240
Burne did describe the master as being
a mister b of l d. And

335
00:25:22.319 --> 00:25:26.359
although the man's name remains unknown to
us and probably always will remain so ld

336
00:25:26.680 --> 00:25:33.400
is very possibly and probably quite likely
a reference to the ancient nearby Staffordshire city

337
00:25:33.480 --> 00:25:37.200
of Lichfield. So what precisely was
the strange hairy critter that was seen wildly

338
00:25:37.319 --> 00:25:42.359
roaming the distinctly darkened corners of the
Shropshire Union Canal by moonlight on that winter's

339
00:25:42.440 --> 00:25:48.839
night way back in January eighteen seventy
nine. Was it truly some form of

340
00:25:48.880 --> 00:25:52.200
Bigfoot or Yetti like entity? Could
it potentially have been an exotic escape e

341
00:25:52.519 --> 00:25:56.920
of the Simian kind and possibly one
that originated with a private zoo somewhere in

342
00:25:56.960 --> 00:26:00.880
the area, or even a traveling
monata of the type that were indeed popular

343
00:26:00.960 --> 00:26:07.559
back then. Did it have wholly
supernatural and paranormal origins rather than purely physical

344
00:26:07.599 --> 00:26:11.079
ones, or was it something else
entirely? The questions are many, the

345
00:26:11.200 --> 00:26:15.279
answers are few, but still on
the matter of the Man Monkey. Eliot

346
00:26:15.279 --> 00:26:19.279
O'Donnell was a prestigious author, one
who penned dozens of titles on the world

347
00:26:19.319 --> 00:26:23.039
of the paranormal, and who died
in nineteen sixty five at the age of

348
00:26:23.160 --> 00:26:29.079
ninety three. In his nineteen twelve
book Where Wolves, O'Donnell said, it

349
00:26:29.200 --> 00:26:33.200
is an old belief that the souls
of cataleptic and epileptic people, during the

350
00:26:33.279 --> 00:26:37.559
body's unconsciousness adjourned temporarily to animals,
and it is therefore only in keeping with

351
00:26:37.680 --> 00:26:41.000
such a view to suggest that on
the deaths of such people, their spirits

352
00:26:41.039 --> 00:26:47.799
take permanently the form of animals.
This O'Donnell said accounted for the fact that

353
00:26:47.880 --> 00:26:52.640
the places where such people died are
often haunted by semi and wholly animal types

354
00:26:52.680 --> 00:26:56.519
of phantasm. There is, however, clearly something supernatural about the man monkey,

355
00:26:56.839 --> 00:27:00.720
since sightings of the always solitary beasts
have continued to be reported into the

356
00:27:00.799 --> 00:27:06.440
twenty first century, and they are
almost identical in nature. The location is

357
00:27:06.559 --> 00:27:10.720
usually bridged thirty nine. The monster
leaps out of the trees and terrifies the

358
00:27:10.839 --> 00:27:15.839
unwary, and it displays qualities and
characteristics that are part flesh and blood and

359
00:27:15.960 --> 00:27:21.160
part spectral. Whatever the true nature
of Ranton's resident hairy monster man, it

360
00:27:21.240 --> 00:27:25.839
shows no signs of leaving its tree
covered haunt anytime soon. Should you one

361
00:27:25.920 --> 00:27:29.839
day find yourself in the vicinity of
Ranton. Take great care and heed if

362
00:27:29.880 --> 00:27:33.519
you are forced to cross Bridge thirty
nine. The man monkey may be waiting

363
00:27:33.559 --> 00:27:37.759
in the wooded wings, ready to
strike at a moment's notice. The remarkable

364
00:27:37.839 --> 00:27:41.880
tale of Paul Bell is for me
at least a highly memorable one. Bell

365
00:27:41.960 --> 00:27:44.640
said that he was a keen fisherman, and told me how in July and

366
00:27:44.720 --> 00:27:48.599
August nineteen seventy six he had spent
several saturdays out at the canal with his

367
00:27:48.759 --> 00:27:52.160
rods, reels and bait, and
soaking in the intense heat of what was,

368
00:27:52.200 --> 00:27:56.039
without doubt and absolutely scalding hot couple
of months. I seriously doubt that

369
00:27:56.160 --> 00:28:00.839
anyone who is old enough to remember
the summer of seventy six will ever quite

370
00:28:00.880 --> 00:28:07.200
forget those truly extraordinary temperatures that briefly
and memorably plunged the entire nation into complete

371
00:28:07.279 --> 00:28:11.279
and utter s goolden chaos. But
it was far stranger things than the occasional

372
00:28:11.359 --> 00:28:15.960
extreme nature of the British whether that
Paul Bell had fixed on his mind.

373
00:28:15.680 --> 00:28:19.599
He told me how, on one
particular Saturday afternoon he was sat near the

374
00:28:19.640 --> 00:28:23.359
water's edge, very near to where
the events of eighteen seventy nine occurred on

375
00:28:23.480 --> 00:28:27.839
a small wooden stool that he always
carried with him when he was literally frozen

376
00:28:27.960 --> 00:28:32.400
solid by the side of what,
at first I thought was a big log

377
00:28:32.519 --> 00:28:37.319
floating down the cut about sixty or
seventy feet away. According to Bell,

378
00:28:37.400 --> 00:28:41.359
however, it was no log.
It was something else Entirely. As it

379
00:28:41.440 --> 00:28:45.720
got closer, Bell was both astonished
and horrified to see a large, dark

380
00:28:45.839 --> 00:28:49.480
brown and black colored eel or snakelike
creature, possibly ten feet in length or

381
00:28:49.519 --> 00:28:52.519
a little bit more, moving slowly
in the water, with its head that

382
00:28:52.839 --> 00:28:57.279
looked like a black sheep flicking rapidly
from side to side. Although he had

383
00:28:57.319 --> 00:29:00.839
an old polaroid camera with him,
said Bell, he never even thought to

384
00:29:00.920 --> 00:29:06.200
take a photograph. Instead, he
merely stared in both awe and shock as

385
00:29:06.279 --> 00:29:11.160
the animal cruised leisurely and blissfully passed
him before finally vanishing out of sight.

386
00:29:11.200 --> 00:29:15.519
That's right, you guessed it correctly, the man monkey. Peering across the

387
00:29:15.559 --> 00:29:19.480
width of the canal, Paul was
both horrified and petrified to see a dark,

388
00:29:19.720 --> 00:29:23.799
hairy face staring intently at him out
of the thick green bushes. The

389
00:29:23.880 --> 00:29:27.759
head of the animal was unmistakably human
like, but crossed with a monkey,

390
00:29:27.839 --> 00:29:32.119
said Bell, who added that as
soon as it saw me looking at it,

391
00:29:32.440 --> 00:29:34.079
up it went and ran right into
the trees, and I lost it.

392
00:29:36.039 --> 00:29:38.880
He further explained that was it a
second or two was all at the

393
00:29:38.960 --> 00:29:41.720
most, but as it got up
and ran, I knew it was a

394
00:29:41.759 --> 00:29:45.680
big monkey. There's nothing else it
could have been. But what flummocks me

395
00:29:45.799 --> 00:29:49.119
more than seeing it, though,
was what was it doing there? At

396
00:29:49.160 --> 00:29:52.559
this stage? Many might be inclined
to ask, is it just too much

397
00:29:52.640 --> 00:29:56.960
to accept when someone claims to have
seen not one, but two strange animals

398
00:29:57.000 --> 00:30:02.960
in the same precise area for some? But I will later reveal that sightings

399
00:30:03.000 --> 00:30:07.519
of hairy man beasts and water based
monsters in the same area are curiously prevalent

400
00:30:07.599 --> 00:30:11.119
in Britain, and there's an intriguing
theory as to why exactly this should be

401
00:30:11.240 --> 00:30:15.359
so, which I will discuss in
due course. Until then, though on

402
00:30:15.559 --> 00:30:19.680
with the sightings, Bell stressed that
the creature apparently did not see him,

403
00:30:21.119 --> 00:30:23.440
or if it did, it never
attacked me and did not appear to exhibit

404
00:30:23.519 --> 00:30:29.880
any outright hostile tendencies. Having heard
such accounts on several previous occasions, namely

405
00:30:30.200 --> 00:30:34.039
of giant eels roaming British waterways and
particularly those of the West Midlands, meant

406
00:30:34.079 --> 00:30:37.799
that Paul Bell's story was not that
unusual to me at all, even though

407
00:30:37.839 --> 00:30:42.799
it certainly involved what was, without
doubt an unknown animal of truly impressive proportions.

408
00:30:44.400 --> 00:30:47.759
But what elevated it to a far
stranger level was the fact that Bell

409
00:30:47.880 --> 00:30:51.519
claimed, in quite matter of fact
fashion, I have to confess that the

410
00:30:51.599 --> 00:30:55.960
following Saturday he was fishing in practically
the same spot when he got the feeling

411
00:30:56.039 --> 00:31:00.119
I was being watched and saw something
equally monstrous, yet manifest different in nature

412
00:31:00.200 --> 00:31:04.599
and appearance. Very notably, the
kelpie was also said to be able to

413
00:31:04.640 --> 00:31:10.440
transform itself into both a beautiful maiden
or mermaid and a large hairy man that

414
00:31:10.480 --> 00:31:14.920
would hide in the vegetation of Scottish
waterways and leap out and attack the unwary,

415
00:31:15.400 --> 00:31:18.559
not unlike the man monkey of the
Shropshire Union Canal. Now we just

416
00:31:18.680 --> 00:31:22.200
might know why our monsters are so
elusive. They live in deep water.

417
00:31:22.799 --> 00:31:30.279
Maybe most of the time they say, you don't gotta go home, but

418
00:31:30.519 --> 00:32:04.680
you can stay. I don't want
to be oppen joy this job. That

419
00:32:05.200 --> 00:32:13.039
chart everything calling, get pring back, joy from me, joy staying right,

420
00:32:15.279 --> 00:33:17.680
you come in right away, step
steps still, steps don dost stay.

421
00:33:17.920 --> 00:33:29.519
Passings used US instances